With the recent unfortunate events of Israel’s storming of a flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip with aid supplies, one hopes (futilely) that the U.S. rethinks its relationship with the apartheid state of Israel. Though even as I am writing this draft, sources are coming out everywhere denying any possibility of this, with even our vice president coming out to defend the Israel’s murderous actions. I admit up-front that my hopes are futile as the actions of one death-state should hardly offend its death-state allies.
In a world where Israel is always claiming its actions are in defense, the reality is only causing more instability and death. Peace plans constantly falter over insistence that Israel treat Palestinians as human beings. The U.S. has been weak to enforce such demands as it is also a country whose very existence is owed to the theft and genocide of land and people. Indeed, the Zionist platform seems a modern repetition of the United States’ own concept of “manifest destiny” and its practices remind one of the gruesome policies enforced against the immediate ancestors of the leaders employing them. Another ship, heading towards Gaza as I write this is faced with a similar fate unless Israel or the ship’s occupants have a change of heart.
It’s easy to see why Israel is so determined to stop Iran from obtaining any semblance of nuclear resources. Though disguised as a plea for peace and stability, Israel’s hegemony over the region is what is truly at stake. An Israel forced to treat the Arab-speaking world as equals is one that requires Israel to take it’s boot off of their collective neck. Despite a lack of any evidence, I sometimes wish that Iran was building nuclear weapons as to reassert a balance of power and make Empire think more clearly before murdering fellow human beings and stealing the resources of states too poor to defend themselves.
The policies that Israel’s Zionist government has employed have only helped bring the fantasy, that the entire world is against it, into a higher degree of reality. Were I someone who prayed, I would for the individuals aboard the Rachel Corrie as they head for an almost certain death. Perhaps their blood wont be shed in vain and their deaths will help the world awaken to the atrocities they have only been too willing to ignore in Israel. Though as long as Israel can count on the unwavering support of the U.S., and with no one strong enough to risk their wrath, what good can we expect? One can find hope in the increased dealings of the smaller nations without Empire’s influence like the plan proposed by Brazil and Turkey to aid Iran’s hopes of nuclear power. Will we see more and more examples of Empire being left irrelevant as smaller nations take on the needs of the world? I hope so.